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[Brian O'Connor]

Hello,

I think that the border question is a little specific.  I never memorize
order of parameters,  I learn the concepts behind it.  Knowing which
position comes first in a border-width command doesn't really demonstrate
your knowledge of css.

I think a better question would be something for inheritence of css, and set
up something with

.foo {
    font-size: 10px;
    color: #14191D;
}

    .foo .bar {
        font-size: 15px;
        text-decoration: underline;
     }

<div class="foo">
 // blah blah
 <div class="bar">Hello World</div>
</div>

What attributes will Hello World have on the screen?

correct answer being font-size 15px, underline, and color #14191D.

To get good programmers and designers, the trick is to not test them on
things like syntax.  I consider myself to have a strong command on css and I
would never know the answer to the question to your border problem, as it
really doesn't hold any meaning.  I take 1 minute out of my day to go to
www.w3schools.com and look up the syntax and I've got it.

For your programming question, I think someone without programming
experience could get that :)

I'm a big fan of the fizzbuzz question:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000781.html

It's a very simple test that will quickly show to you if someone has basic
programming skills.

Hope that helps
- Brian


On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:07 AM, André Pitanga <andre at pitanga.org> wrote:

> So, we're hiring a new webmaster here at work and I was tasked with
> producing a simple technical test. The person is supposed to have two years
> experience as a web dev. There's three parts: html, css, and webmaster
> questions. What do you think?
> (bonus: I'll tell you what my manager thought)
>
> HTML
>
> 1) Which HTML attribute is used to define inline styles?
>      a) font
>      b) styles
>      c) css
>      d) text
>      e) style
>
> 2) What is the correct HTML for referring to an external style sheet?
>      a) <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mainstyle.css">
>      b) <style src="mainstyle.css">
>      c) <stylesheet>mainstyle.css</stylesheet>
>      d) <link url="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mainstyle.css">
>
> 3) Which HTML tag is used to define an internal style sheet?
>      a) <script>
>      b) <css>
>      c) <stylesheet>
>      d) <style>
>
> CSS
>
> 4) Which is the correct CSS syntax?
>      a) body {color: black}
>      b) body:color=black
>      c) {body:color=black}
>      d) {body color:black}
>
> 5) How does one set a border like this:
>
>   The top border = 10 pixels, The bottom border = 5 pixels, The left
> border = 20 pixels, The right border = 1pixel.
>
>      a) border-width:10px 20px 5px 1px
>      b) border-width:10px 1px 5px 20px
>      c) border-width:10px 5px 20px 1px
>      d) border-width:5px 20px 10px 1px
>
> 6) What are the three methods for using style sheets with a web page
>      a) Dreamweaver, GoLive or FrontPage
>      b) In-Line, External or Embedded
>      c) Handcoded, Database-driven or WYSIWYG
>
> PROGRAMMING
>
> 7) a and b are variables.
>
>   a = 10
>   b = 20
>   a = b
>
>   The new values of a and b are, respectively:
>
> WEBMASTER
>
> 8) What factors determine your recommended maximum home page size (in
> kilobytes)? How are the factors related?
>
> 9) Why use Flash in web development? Why not?
>
> 10) Why is "separation of style and content" recommended in web
> development?
>
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Brian O'Connor
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